The Road To The Series
Man, I can't do anything in these double shootouts for the WSOP on Stars. Seven whiffs this week with only two final tables made plus a big zero in the $650 super satellite this past weekend. This is starting to get expensive. Plus I'm losing online tonight! Plus the NYC club I was going to go to tonight to play a $500 tourney and then some 50-100 HE shut down for a while because someone had a heart attack and died there? I'm running bad today. Not as bad as they guy who had the heart attack though.
I did manage to play one fun hand in a double shootout and here it is:
- 25/50 blinds I raise UTG+1 to 125 with QsJs, only the blinds call. Flop Ks Th 9s, they check, I bet 125, SB moves in for 1180, BB folds, I call, SB has T9, so "no ten no nine" and we're good. Turn blank, river Ts. As I am cursing the poker gods for another bad beat I realize it's okay because I still have the nuts.
I did manage to play one fun hand in a double shootout and here it is:
- 25/50 blinds I raise UTG+1 to 125 with QsJs, only the blinds call. Flop Ks Th 9s, they check, I bet 125, SB moves in for 1180, BB folds, I call, SB has T9, so "no ten no nine" and we're good. Turn blank, river Ts. As I am cursing the poker gods for another bad beat I realize it's okay because I still have the nuts.
posted by Chris Fargis at 10:16 PM
7 Comments:
Would you buy into the main event? If not, you should be careful about playing a lot of satelites to get in. Remember, no matter how good you are, the cost of the satelites will always be proportional to the cost of the tournament.
Barring unforseen running bad between now and then, I will buy in if I don't win a seat.
Then good luck. I hope you get in soon and cheaply.
It sounds like RiverStars tried to f you, but the rigger screwed up and gave you the straight flush. I hear they do that - create "action rivers" to juice the rake.
Joking, btw.
Why raise UTG with QJs that early in a tourney?
Beset,
Why not?
I don't mean to be difficult, but you haven't provided any case not to make this play. The stacks are deep, I'm experimenting with never open-limping, sometimes the flop comes KT9 with two of your suit, what's wrong with QJs?
Yeah. I probably should have been more specific.
I guess in single-table, winner take all tournaments there are some variant styles and some room for experimentation but it seems to me that the format (rapidly escalating blinds, winner take all, short stack play) dictates playing like a rock early on and then a kamikaze fighter pilot later.
If the stacks were deeper moves like this make sense but more often then not you are going to be chip spewing at a point in the SNG when the chips are just too damn valuable to be doing that with... Those are my thoughts anyways.
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